Prescott's Microbiology 8th Edition by Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood, Christopher J. Woolverton, Lansing Prescott, John Harley, Donald Klein

Exercise 1

How did the methods used to classify microbes change, particularly in the last half of the twentieth century? What was the result of these technological advances?

Step 1 of 4

Several advances in science have heralded a change in the classification of microbes. Microbes can be classified by how they look, how they live, and more recently, by their genetics.